Hacktoberfest, IIITS

Hacktoberfest Online Meetup

Saturday October 17, 2020
9:00am to Oct 19, 9:00pm IST
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Event Description

Hacktoberfest — brought to you by DigitalOcean in partnership with Dev & Intel — is a month-long celebration of open source software. IOTA at Indian Institute of Information Technology Sricity, is trying to introduce people to exciting world of Open Source Software Development by organising a Hacktoberfest event. We wish to facilitate students in making their first contributions. Also, we are trying to introduce some technologies like GitHub, Travis etc. that is used by a lots of Open Source Projects to the students.

This event will completely take place in online mode and is open for all the students of IIITS.

How to participate

We are conducting the event across a span of 3 days from 17th to 19th October. Participants should join the IOTA Hactoberfest Discord Server. All the updates, resources, and announcements regarding the event will be shared there. We will be using the same platform for conducting meetups.

It is not necessary for one to attend event on all the days. You can tune in as per your wish and convenience.

Event code of conduct

Hacktoberfest meetups are welcoming, open, and inclusive. Please read the Hacktoberfest Events Code of Conduct before attending. Happy hacking!

Who can attend?

Locations have different requirements for who can attend. This location is open to the following:

Schedule

Note: All the times are in IST (UTC + 05:30)

Day 1 - 17 October 21:00 - 00:00

21:00 - 21:15 - Introduction
21:15 - 21:30 - Code of Conduct
21:30 - 21:45 - What is Open Source & GitHub
21:45 - 22:45 - Guest Speaker - Experience with Open Source
23:00 - 23:15 - Git Refresher - Quiz
23:15 - 23:30 - How to find repository for Hacktoberfest
23:30 - 00:00 - SSH/GPG Keys

Day 2 - 18 October 18:00 - 20:30

18:00 - 18:20 - Understanding large code base
18:20 - 18:40 - GitHub Issues (tags, approvals, searching issues, cross referencing issues)
18:40 - 19:00 - Fun Quiz
19:00 - 19:30 - GitHub Actions (Creating a Workflow, How to use Actions)
19:40 - 20:10 - CI/CD - Travis & Coveralls
20:10 - 20:30 - CI/CD/GitHub Actions Quiz

Day 3 - 19 October 18:00 - 20:30

18:00 - 18:30 - Show and Tell
18:30 - 19:30 - Guest Speaker - Dev Ops
19:30 - 19:45 - Dev Ops Quiz
19:45 - 20:15 - Q/A Session
20:15 - 20:30 - Fun Quiz

Links & Resources

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